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Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.

Because that’s not about privacy, that’s about the trade war. Retaliatory tariffs on US cars increase cost of cars for Canadians, as there are almost no car assembled in Canada. Reducing or eliminating tariffs on cars from China would lower cost of new cars for Canadians while keeping the tariffs up.

For privacy and security, not a single new car on the market is decent right now. That should be regulated, but that’s no concern for any politician at the moment.

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themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Europe and its 50 car makers could also be considered instead of China…

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- matlag@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yes, but Canada had implemented 100% tariff on cars from China, following the US. That’s pre-trade war. The proposal is to lift that one.
  
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  - themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Ah, I see. Thanks!
    
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NightCrawlerProMax@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
CCP has backdoor into every tech that comes out of China. It’s not about just privacy. They control democracies based on shaping narratives. They’ll utilize everything that democracy offers and use it against countries. They don’t have freedom of speech or press so they themselves are not victims of it. EVs are really just computers on the road. Flooding the market with Chinese EVs would just mean creating a massive free network on a foreign soil for them.

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- freely1333@reddthat.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  As opposed to the teslas with the back doors for the us government… but will be moot when Canada is part of the states anyway
  
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- Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  All cars are computers on the road at this point, not just EVs…
  
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  - NightCrawlerProMax@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    While technically true, that’s not what I meant. For example, Tesla Model 3 has AMD Ryzen chip. It is a full fledged computer CPU. Although my Toyota surely has a computer onboard, it’s nowhere close to this level of tech in the Tesla. EVs from China are at the same or higher level tech-wise compared to Teslas.
    
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- matlag@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Summary: China is not a friend country. It’s a hostile country. Yes, we know.
  
  But the news is… so is the USA to Canada now. A hostile country threatening to annex Canada and trying to cripple the economy as a way to achieve the goal. So either we slap 100% tariffs on US made cars, which would hurt Canadians, or we apply the same tariffs on Chinese cars, so reduce them from where they are at the moment.
  
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  - NightCrawlerProMax@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    All I meant was flooding the market with Chinese cars isn’t a huge security threat to the country. There’s another alternative. European cars.
    
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